UNDERGROUND CONDUITS FOR THE HIGH TENSION POWER LINES ARE BEING INSTALLED

MORRIS PARK YARD

LOOKING WEST IN 1908

DUNTON STATION LOOKING EAST

THE GRADE CROSSING IS VAN WYCK AVENUE - MANY OF THE TRAINS SERVING DUNTON MADE "f" STOPS - "STOP ON SIGNAL TO LAND
OR RECEIVE PASSENGERS". THE SHORT SEMAPHORE SIGNALS AT EACH END OF THE STATION
PLATFORM ARE FLAG STATION SIGNALS OPERATED BY PASSENGERS.

OLDER AND MORE RECENT PHOTOGRAPHS OF THIS TOWER SHOW NO CALL LETTERS SIGN. THE SIGNALS ARE PNEUMATIC AND ARE CONTROLLED FROM TOWER NUMBER 15 - "JT". NOTICE THE MP41 TRAIN WITH WOODEN TRAILER CARS.

UNTIL JUNE 1906 THE SWITCHES AT THE EAST END OF JAMAICA STATION WERE HAND OPERATED BY SWITCHMEN - EVEN THE DOUBLE SLIP SWITCHES WITH MOVABLE POINT FROGS.
AT THE LEFT ARE A GAS HOUSE AND GAS STORAGE CAR FOR SUPPLYING GAS LIGHTED PASSENGER CARS.

LOOKING WEST FROM "JE" TOWER - ORIGINALLY THE SECOND TOWER NUMBER 41

THIS WAS AN ALL-ELECTRIC INTERLOCKING.
THE LOCOMOTIVE APPEARS TO BE WELL PAST THE SIGNAL AND THE FOULING POINT OF THE CONNECTING TRACK BUT THE SEMAPHORE STILL INDICATES "PROCEED".

NEW YORK AVENUE GRADE CROSSING AND TOWER NUMBER 41

LOOKING EAST CIRCA 1900 -
THE SIX CAR TRAIN IS EASTWARD ON THE MONTAUK DIVISION. APPROACHING IS A FORNEY POWERED "RAPID TRANSIT". THIS WAS THE LAYOUT FROM 1903 UNTIL JUNE
1906

PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN TOOKER

ROCKAWAY JUNCTION

SUB-STATION NUMBER FOUR AND "RJ" TOWER'S
EASTWARD HOME SIGNALS FROM BRENTON AVENUE.

LOOKING WEST FROM THE MONTAUK DIVISION IN 1903 - "RJ" WAS A MECHANICAL INTERLOCKING.

ROCKAWAY JUNCTION STATION IN 1896

THE FIREMAN ON THE RAPID TRANSIT'S FORNEY WAS JOHN TOOKER WHO WAS INTERESTED IN RAILROAD HISTORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY. BILL SLADE AND JOHN CORRESPONDED FOR YEARS.

"RJ" TOWER - FORMERLY NUMBER 42 - BUILT IN 1895

IN 1906 AN ALL-ELECTRIC INTERLOCKING WAS INSTALLED
WHEN THIS PLAN WAS REVISED IN 1913 THE SWITCHES WERE STILL PROTECTED BY DETECTOR BARS - TRACK CIRCUITS HAD NOT YET BEEN INSTALLED.